10/15/2012 6:00 pm
10/15/2012 8:00 pm
We are pleased to bring Robert Sullivan with his book American Revolution: Crossing the Delaware and I-78 to Oyster Club for our author dinner series. Tickets for this dinner are $75 and include a three course dinner at Oyster Club, a signed copy of American Revolution, and readings/discussion with Robert Sullivan. To RSVP for this event, please call Bank Square Books at 860.536.3795 or click the button below to purchase tickets now.
Americans tend to think of the Revolution as a Massachusetts-based event
orchestrated by Virginians, but in fact the war took place mostly in
the Middle Colonies—in New York and New Jersey and the parts of
Pennsylvania that on a clear day you can almost see from the Empire
State Building. In My American Revolution, Robert Sullivan delves
into this first Middle America, digging for a glorious, heroic part of
the past in the urban, suburban, and sometimes even rural landscape of
today. And there are great adventures along the way: Sullivan
investigates the true history of the crossing of the Delaware, its
down-home reenactment each year for the past half a century, and—toward
the end of a personal odyssey that involves camping in New Jersey
backyards, hiking through lost “mountains,” and eventually some physical
therapy—he evacuates illegally from Brooklyn to Manhattan by handmade
boat.
Like an almanac, My American Revolution moves through the
calendar of American independence, considering the weather and the
tides, the harbor and the estuary and the yearly return of the stars as
salient factors in the war for independence. In this fiercely individual
and often hilarious journey to make our revolution his, he shows us how
alive our own history is, right under our noses.
Location:
- Street:
- 13 Water Street
- Additional:
- Oyster Club
- City:
- Mystic ,
- Province:
- Connecticut
- Postal Code:
- 06355
- Country:
- United States
